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The Behavior of Organisms

B. F. Skinner
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The article was published on 1938-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3337 citations till now.

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Using neutralizing routines to reduce problem behaviors.

TL;DR: Results from an ABAB reversal design supported the effectiveness of neutralizing routines to reduce problem behaviors with 3 adolescents with severe intellectual disabilities.
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See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: a study of defensive organizational behavior towards customer complaints

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of defensive organizational behavior towards customer complaints as well as provide a rich conceptualization and operationalization of this phenomenon, and systematically analyze how defensive organizational behaviour towards customer complaint is driven by organizational antecedents and, based on a dyadic data set, how it affects customer post-complaint reactions.
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The goal‐dependent automaticity of drinking habits

TL;DR: Three experiments tested the view that when habits are established, simply activating a goal related to the focal behaviour automatically elicits that behaviour, consistent with a goal-dependent conception of habit.
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Modulatory mechanisms in Pavlovian conditioning

TL;DR: This article reviews and evaluates the literature on this Pavlovian modulatory mechanism, and finds that positive modulators signal a positive relationship between the CS and the US, whereas negative modulator signal that the CS-US relationship is not in force.
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Retrieval variability: sources and consequences.

TL;DR: It is concluded that many memory failures are due at least in part to retrieval failure, and the initial active-passive trace distinction is expanded to three types of traces.
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The Mentality of Apes

TL;DR: Koehler's analysis of the intelligence of higher primates marked a turning point in the psychology of thinking and the continuing struggle between behaviorism and cognitive psychology as discussed by the authors, but it was largely ignored for decades because it violated the conventional wisdom that animal behavior is simply the result of instinct or conditioning.
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Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist

TL;DR: Wozniak as mentioned in this paper describes the early elaboration of the theory of reflex, habit, and implicit response in the early stages of the development of the early development of behaviourism.